P. J. Harvey Quotes & Sayings

“People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.”

“I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.”

“I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other.”

“People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.”

“I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.”

“I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.”

“I'm a Libra. That means that I can make a decision, but only after much thought.”

“I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.”

“With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.”

“I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.”